Color Matters – Color and Computers – http://www.colormatters.com/comput.html.
Here’s a wonderful introduction to how to interpret color on a computer screen – seeing is not always believing.
Here’s a few lines from it:
Here’s the path that the graphic took to get to you:
1. The image was placed in an html script (web page) that can be read by all Web browsers. This script was sent to the Color Matters’ web server computer in Honolulu, Hawaii.
2. Your Web browser software connected your computer to our server and brought the image into your computer. The colors in this gif image passed through the browser and brought this information into your computer operating system.
3. The colors in the image passed through your operating system hardware. If you have a graphic card or video card it may have joined in to interpret the color.
4. Your monitor took all the information and sent it to your eyes.
In conclusion, remember that different computers do different things, many “systems” have different configurations of all of the above things, and browsers used to view the World Wide Web are part of the overall picture.
Related item to consider may be screen resolutions :
http://www.w3schools.com/sitemap/sitemap_references.asp
Display Resolution
The current trend is that most computers are using a screen size of 1024×768 pixels or more:
| Date |
Higher |
1024×768 |
800×600 |
640×480 |
Unknown |
| January 2009 |
57% |
36% |
4% |
0% |
3% |
| January 2008 |
38% |
48% |
8% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2007 |
26% |
54% |
14% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2006 |
17% |
57% |
20% |
0% |
6% |
| January 2005 |
12% |
53% |
30% |
0% |
5% |
| January 2004 |
10% |
47% |
37% |
1% |
5% |
| January 2003 |
6% |
40% |
47% |
2% |
5% |
| January 2002 |
6% |
34% |
52% |
3% |
5% |
| January 2001 |
5% |
29% |
55% |
6% |
5% |
| January 2000 |
4% |
25% |
56% |
11% |
4% |
Your Computer Matters – Color, Computers and Resolutions
To download a copy of the SSH:
To Find the php.ini file on the server
Mastering the VI editor.
after logging on, elevate to ROOT level access by typing this at the prompt:
It will ask for your Admin password for this.
The most common editor used is the ‘vi’ editor in this text-based system.
To navigate to the folder and edit php.ini fileusing ‘vi,’ use these commands:
- cd /etc (assuming it’s the php.ini is in this folder – see above)
- vi php.ini (opens the VI editor for editing the file)
Simple VI commands
- a to append
- : to user command line
- wq to write and exit on command line
- CTRL C to exit editing
How to edit phi.ini file in an SSH connection
This online Newsletter creator and emailer was created to facilitate the Marketing department in deploying an online newsletter in a consistent format before a decision was made to outsource this function.
It was used for several years by several Marketing staff to generate graphically appealing and consistent format for an online companion of the publication Upbeat. Email addresses would be imported/exported from the Membership database (if they have selected the option) to send the newsletter.
Jazz-e-News
This system allowed the Office Manager to put up a notice and manage the Board members’ information as required.
The inactive board members’ information is kept in the database for possible future use.
Possible future additions included Board-member access only pages and newsletters.
Board of Trustees
This multi-user level application allows the Marketing and Underwriting departments to collaborate on Membership Card Discounts.
Optional check-box allows discount items to be featured on the main Discounts page on the corporate Website.
Front-end is displayed as categories in the Member Card Discounts page with featured items displayed by default.
Member Discount
The PlayList is a custom client-server solution for adding song information for a Radio station while the DJ spins the songs On the Air.
At WBGO, I integrated this with their Amazon.com account so the CDs of the songs could be located with a click. The host entering the data can edit only their own entries. A logged-in administrator may edit everyone’s data.
Additional benefits include being able to include additional information required by ASCAAP and BMI of Public Radio Stations every year and generate reports from collected data.
The goal of the completed application was to integrate with WBGO’s music library, once digitized, to allow single song downloads and purchases.
Future development would involve an online playlist available to Members with their favorite hosts announcing the intro and outro of titles.
The front-end of this application is viewable here.
PlayList
After my second interview at WBGO, I decided to volunteer my time until the management made a decision to help out with an impending fund-raiser. Someone had built them an application using Visual Basic that essentially served as a chat application between the announcer’s computer and the producer’s computer while raising funds. I gathered the requirements to build an application that automatically tallies up the pledges and serves as a web-based application.
This was the birth of the first version of the GoalBoard - an application enabling a radio station in reaching their goal by centralizing all data in a password protected multi-level access restricted application.
Written as a ASP/MySQL solution, this application eventually evolved to include multiple components including:
- Drive Administration
- Goals Administration
- Premiums Management
- Reports Management
- Pledge Input systems
- Pledge Edit/Export
- Web and Overflow Integration
Each of these components will be further defined in detail.
GoalBoard
One of the biggest problems I run into in working with multiple people on a Website is organizing how to synchronize ONLY THE CODE in an entire website without having to worry about the Media and Graphics and PDFs, etc. unless I need to make a full backup.
For the DreamWeaver user, this can be done by using the ‘Cloaking’ feature:
This particular setting will NOT synchronize the fie-types listed with the remote server. This saves a LOT of time as DW quesries the last modified date on every file that needs to be synchronized.
DreamWeaver Tricks and Tips – Cloaking
No longer is it enough for Average Web viewer to stand by and watch as we dictate them a Website. So, the emergence of Social Media tools. No longer is it enough to be the user of just one Social Media tool as each are like little utility programs – each with a different purpose (however slight the difference may be).
A Website can integrate with Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, etc. with very little effort. I used to dream about the day I can just do the coding and not have to worry about ‘updating the website’ for someone. Well, that day is finally here. WordPress has made it possible to design and develop an entire Website and hand it over to a client to update it themselves.
This is great news for the good programmer and the good designer of WordPress. The good programmer can now convert almost any visual design concept into a WordPress Template. Do it once, Website built, move on to the next one.
The good designer, in the long run (as always), thus become more of a necessity if you want to build a unique Brand for your Website. As more people start paying less to Update their website, they should have more funds to allocate to a unique design.
If someone has a hand in BOTH is where the fun begins. Little Applications can be re-written, thousands of available ‘plugins’ can be integrated with custom made code to provide to a client exactly what they need.
That’s where I’d like to come in.
The new age of Technology